You will be comparing the futuristic world created by Ray Bradbury in his novel, Fahrenheit 451 to the world you live in today. You are required to describe at least 30 aspects of both worlds - yours and Bradbury's. This is due with the completion of the novel.
| Your World, 2011 |
Montag's World, Future |
| Firefighters put out fires |
Firefighters cause fires (Zack) |
| People plan and create ideas |
People live only for entertainment and are "in the now" (Zack) |
| Firemen use real dogs |
Fireman have 8-legged electronic hounds (Zack) |
| Murder is illegal |
Murder is an everyday normal, and politically accepted event (Zack) |
| TV's that are 72' are extremly large |
TV's cover the walls (Zack) |
| People have front porches and relax |
People have no talking time and are always distracted (Zack) |
| Speed limit is under 70 mph. |
Cars drive around 100 mph. (sarah) |
| Kindergarten age is 5/6 |
Kindergarten age is much lower. (sarah) |
| Gas cars |
Racer jet cars (ashley) |
| Fall asleep naturally |
Take sleeping tablets (ashley) |
| Parents see their kids every day |
Parents see their kids 3 times a month (ashley) |
| Natural birth |
C-section (ashley) |
| Teenagers respect one another |
Kids and teenagers kill each other (ashley) |
| Medical machines need monitoring |
Medical machines don't need monitoring (yiyi) |
| Wives care about husbands |
Wives don't really care about husbands if they die in war (yiyi) |
| Criminals die through execution |
Criminals die through lethal injection by the Hound (yiyi) |
| Crime is taken seriously |
Government will take an innocent citizen as a scapegoat (yiyi) |
| Suicide isn't really a common thing |
People commit suicide everyday (yiyi) |
| USA tries not to cause wars |
USA causes a lot of wars (ashley) |
| Kids are friends |
Kids kill eachother (ashley) |
| Mechanical animals do not exist |
Mechanical animals DO exist (ashley) |
| Seashell's haven't been invented |
Everyone has one (yiyi) |
| People watch normal TV |
People watch pointless, violent, nasty tv shows (yiyi) |
| TV's are not always on |
TV's are constantly on (sarah) |
| People hire parlour-sitters |
People sometimes hire house-sitters (sarah) |
| When people get together, they talk to each other |
People watch TV together (sarah) |
| Police admit to losing a criminal |
Police accuse innocent people to cover up their mistakes (sarah) |
| People watch TV for a reason |
People almost never have a reason to watch TV (sarah) |
| Parents love their kids |
All parents do for their kids is put them in the parlor (sarah) |
| Police use multiple means of tracking a criminal |
Police use only scent to find a criminal (sarah) |